Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1921, Page 64

THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 30, 1921- PART 4. HE TILE OF HEAVENLY BLUE R “Keep the Reform Fires Burning,” Says Lardner ANG 'FOO, the Man of|the luck” that cut so short his de- tand replace them just where they rsolve: First, what was the’poison? it strange that ybu are so fond of it et e et IS T aCCER ORI HER WO ¢ | were and the secret shall be mine.|8econd, who administered it - And.| walking up this awfully steep road?’ evening meal and took the s | Here are your dollars and now/ be- ;Mxr;ihv;h:t ras nis object? ou! Tr very |and tnen, with & most -'l‘fnmc.:t 3 Lok | Sonas re- | ne ve, of course, is to get Tomp- | smite a em ogether, she 5 ; ‘ 2 "€ . fanand the steaming face- [ “\[RS: WILKINS has just been : e e e gt e T°" T |Kins to make an analy @D SUded °T seupose 1 mwm ailll a iittie O the Editor: Several people | ed made shaving a pleasure. but T otYehich the venerable grand one telling me about the loss of | ""At the apointed night and hour Ying| :SOTry. but it is too late.” ** premature in tendering my congratu- has wrote to me lately com- | will bet that even when the men had,‘féady in waiting at his side. |thelr two dear little Japanese dogs,” H Sing's hired thieves awaited their| [F0IStSTl L oG | IAlone am T 00t ents alone in plaining that they hasn't been | (10" ARSS [ and Kois [t for noth: Thuw cooling himself according to the said Mrs. De Peyster as she joined the master's hldd!n'}.l Tl'ney] ret;‘el;efhbl.c!k by the house boy to & beggar for his [the room, Wang Foo carefully no new reforms suggested in | their work and out for a good time c““ and tradition of his ancestors, group at Lady Beecham's in again the three heavenly tiles, the = | hide; Chop-sticks was tossed into the |searched the floor with his flashlight the land of the free in the last cou- they don't run home and shave them 3 gz d |Government Gardems; “isn't it just d harbor as food for the fishes, and the |and to his great joy finally discover- |ple of wks. and It begins to look | S¢IfS all the evening or they don’ he sald to the aged matron, “I ascen s e g e ; Japanese poodles were cremated!” ed, under the cabinet. & few frag-|jike the boys that takes care of our MG eF think of spending their vaca this ‘evening to the upper hall and | A¥IElE Y. ol o the part of : A “Cremated Why, what the {ments of blue enamel that looked (tion removing their wiskers wit will,spend the hours in quiet thought | the Chinese to drtve all forelgn dogs \ orld induced them to do that?™ like little crumbs of colored candy.|mMorals was loafing on the job and ' this here cream. & h: |out of the colony, and so me‘..re e ‘Well, you see, Mrs Wilkins had{He eagerly gathered them up, pllc'dlwny didn't 1 step in and give them _ Another ad sung the praise of a and meditation. Speak to Old Chang . y told them that that was the custom |them in a little purse in his girdle. ! some new idears to work on. certain mince meat and it said down when He returns and tell him not to 3 in their native land and the children |and that night in the Grotto of M 2 at the bottom “Thursday is pie day 1 th tes to any visitors. He f had both insisted that their pets must | tic Changes he began the secret cnemi Well, T can name a whole lot of and as such is observed nationally.” ope! e gal Y . d b g > A have a proper Japanese funeral.” cal analysis with which our story begins. | things that could stand a trip to the Well friends how many of you gets Did you eve “T have Solved the mystery at! leaners only you can't expect to re- ©Yer¥Y Thursday off or tends special is merely to receive the honorable B L card: sk the gracious guests / J 4 “There is one important factor that |las said Wang Foo to the Vener- & 2 church services once & wk. in hono: o 5 ki v i g I think you have overlooked" inter- |able Abbot, as they held their final|form everything at once, and vou |of mince meat and how many of you to call again when the =skies are i | rupted Wang Foo. meeting in the Glade of Quiet Re-|half to pick out one to start in onjgoes around all day Thursday say- brightening”—this Dbeing the old = £ s “And pray, what is that ™ flection. “My little rabbit has died | 0 Why not begin with the adver-|ing. “Merry Pie Da; to your friends” Celestial term for “tomorrow.” He / 3 “Why, the place where it oceurred. |from the very same poison that kill- ng business which some Of my| “Cleanliness brings happiness and t P 5 4 I have discovered that Capt. McAIDIn | ed the foreigners’ pets.” s good cheer,” fs another bold state- walkéd for a few moments up and % 4 Slwi: t C: 135 - 3 ¥S took Chop-sticks with him ‘And the poison is—? {ment which it looks like it down' the stone-paved courtyard and : 3 when he went to call on Mrs. Whit-| “Just what I suspected: the Lan . to question. Ammr then mounted the little staircase to 4 452 / 7 marsh; that the Wilkins' girls had {Ling Yu (Pearl of the Blue Dragon). ! For inst. T got 4 people right h thenflwr = bove. | He Deased throush X K / B3 '/ g taken the poodles there to play the |the fatal berry described in the ‘Dead- | in the house |‘h.l m':mpn:p:x‘-{ it m’:" 1 - B 5 4 v very day the doggies died, and Trixy, {1y Secrets of the Tangs! See! Read ain't dirty, and just the idear of gef his study. which bore the significan! g 4 of course, was in the bungalow ali |here'—opening an volume ting cleaned up is enough to send fame of “The Glade of Quiet Reflec- o % = K i |nd potnting out & line to his aston- ; ek eaagilitindn > b G0 en there is only one conclusion |ished visitor—this deadliest of poi- Then 1 o o % tion,” &nd, unlocking a central | to all that. viz.: The Whitmarsh serv. | sons when mixed with the wax of tho | cal i;';nlu::»mn;sflg;:' of v:gfr:'x"}.".,‘_ ants did it, and that slick Yung Lung |.yellow Canton bee produces the cealed b Iken curtain, entered T et pen to know about personly myself. x dark: apartment which adjoined it. ¢ > Yoo wE NIl oL Bl O sy o L t i . ! “Ahe Grotto of Mystic Changes'— Py 4 Y : e RO o0kE Cat iy Al SR Il el ] AN | ou can double your income. your Che.. 15 : 1 think we had better arrest the |to0, exclaimed the abbot, none other q Dleasure Mndtvour nopuleeity Sateis saxaphone.” Well one of them things for ‘tHat was the meaning of the 4 B # Sy & y - whole gang in the morning—cook, |than the thief who stole the tiles ~golden symbols on the central c 7/ hoy, coolie, amah and all—and get|from the Goddess' canopy and then: Il o et was, ke - the. secret 5 : = g the truth out of them by a wopprlrlp ed_them.” ™| | was siven to me 2 yrs. ago and so far chambér of the dreaded Bluebeard, 4 ; I TAY L / native grilling; what do you say?"’ “No! Not the same, he replaced ! y ) B nowheres near ; / “Better wait a few days longer;|them with the counterfeits of poi- P the second place T can enjoy a good show or a fight just as much or even more so if 1 leave wax that the ! ! my saxaphone home, and as far as i IN ¢ is conserned I kind of feel | ke maybe we would have more call- | | ers if we traded this elegant instru- 1 I ment for a couple bottles of Scotch. | The other ad waid “It you can p quaint dream; Hawaiian music or latest songs o the ukelele you will be wanted every- a place. which the foot of the ordinary - ¥, 7 / mortal never entered. Besides the P 1 / 3 something new may turn up,” was gruxs&m;lvedhlmul{ nous but 13: £ x ,!;,&c"“u"y worded answer of Wang erdhle nd one ever cross Z gz g s .t _needed a periodic sweeping and clean- s 5 s : e HES e wRich Umesyher Hlioe: Ware ‘ A1 . AND something certainly did turn : regularly sworn to a silenceg more - 1] i H s up e M e o : ‘Buddhist idots. It was 7 ; n Hi er when the 4 e stonythan the Bu 7 N 5 Y 1 b f captain paid another visit to the ever- | peqs L'¢ [ragments and so they none other than the sanctum . Exnctuumiwhere uidderpisclenice; SitT attractive bungalow, and this time| ‘“Then Silver Star, the metal worker, soned wax, the genuine ones he sold to the foreign dealer.” “Then it was one of lady bought “Exactly so, and the dogs playing in the drawing room and searching for bits of the children's candy swal-; all its various appliances assisted the e g ‘ML had the pleasure of introducing our |8 the villain®> i master in the solution of mysteries X iy “He certainly is the guilty party. And | | where. and the detection of many a secret . o8 3 : famous detective to the widow. At|now we have an ilustration of the Mas- | | Well, T know a bird that can do crime of the far east. As he lighted _ B A B 1 his especial request she showed him |ter's words. “The people of the weat | | that little thing and I can name a 100 the little lamp that swung from the over the little drawing room where |8180 have their sages. for, thanks to | places he ain’t wanted, to none where ceiling, its rays revealed a number Y i i 5 Jrise. s western science, at which #0 many of 3 > ... i he is wanted. and if th i of cabinets and shelves filled with S5 g s the children had played with the |gur soholars sneer. we have saved our| “IF THE MALL MAN DID'PT HAVE | dian't have nothing to An but dernnn ] poodles, and it was there that he first | colony from trouble.” NUTHIN’ TO DO BUT DELIVER THIS | this guy’s invitations they would lock rows of retorts, bottles, bnll{erlehs. Sk 2 s Houme TR tubes and other apparatus of the g S ; YR noticed her cabinet of curios and be-| _ ‘‘Yes. and thanks to al e Buddhas, | oy ysg INVITATIONS THEY WOULD | him up as a vagran chemist and the electrician, and, in > y i - we have saved the income of our tem 2 - S & o : e [: e : 8an to take a rather unusual interest | 7o G077 UV, Siream of cash will flow | LOCK HIM UP-AS A VAGRAN L vt e the cormer. a complete outfit for the - ) 5 B development. of photographic plates ; / 5 - : pecially Pfl;’g,_'“‘" tile which she | in gteadily from the shrine of the Liama For s motler” youne or ola. no L - 3 5 ; 2 X N . “A genuine Tang! Mr. Wang.” she best friends is mixed up in it, but | Bift could be better proof of thought- ¥ang Foo stepped to the table in LY / s 7 | : exclaimed with delight, as she opened HEN the Austcaliay mall steamer, | When the public wellfare is 'con- |ul afection from it a wooden frame holding four 3 y 2 A Af 5 /s | the glass door and brought it out. | (\7HEY the 3 ‘lserned a man shouldn't let personal| I know mothers both voung and D s 'he el rthem up: 10 4 % ; ¢ b You know, of course, that they are after a month or more in dry|feelings interfere. They's plenty of ; 01d that if you handed them any kind fhe light and examined them criti- 3 7hHY ¢ > very rare and—-" (she whispered {dock, finally steamed out for the[room for a moral uplift amongst the|°f 2 washing machine they ‘would cally one by one. “Ah'” he exclaimed / 7 3 - lhe‘ last words so that the ever- south, some of the people were rather boys and gals that writes our ads. and | Show their appreciation of your with & tone of satisfaction, “we are 4 i 5 [N\ curious bouseboy behind the screen . 3 a m don’t realize how much till |thoughtful affection with a wallop in getting nearer! we are certainly get- y a7l # 7 3 ;_Muld not hear)—‘“almost priceless. | Surprised to sce the first officer in|you make a study of it like I done. (the jaw. ting nearer — another forty-eight 7 ’ v ‘ / - ‘he only others in Hong Kong are in charge on the bridge d the well( The way I come to get interested * X * % hours and all will be ready for the final ‘ the Government Museum. known #kipper a passenger in the|in it was last fall when I was talk- e test. Tube No. 1 shows the setting t i i (4 i K But ing to & friend of mine that writes| Those is only a few samples but ; ! FaaaT : ads and I was telling him how hard | they are enough to convince me that of the crust of wax already, but the ) : solution is not dense enough; we B s s . eaver to say nothing of the fact that & Mrs. |it is to make both ends meet the ' the advertiseing game is far from must wait until we reach heaven's H i h | s 2 5 . It is an awful shame that it got | McAlpin's name was on the list of deepest blue and then—then. My § i S 2 7 2 | chipped this way,” pointing _to a |those sailing —told the story of a| 5 poor little friend,” turning to a little ‘ ¢ Q v “ £ {Jagged edge. “but T accidentally | very happy wedding in Hong Kong i cage in the corner where a white | - ! . jdropped it on the stone hearth the |Cathedral and the delightful prospect i rabbit ' was munching contentedly a | Dfi " - lother day while showing it to the |Of a honeymoon in the southern seas. ‘ TS SR LA \ ! 2 - | Wilkins girls — why! there's thelr | Among the many friends who came sacrificé you on the altar of scienc 3 - H , - y - mother now, just outside our gate;|out from the wharf to say “Bon He carefully replaced the four tubes | J§ z s | ) 2 > you must excuse me just a momeni | VOyage” was Wang Foo, the solver in thefr holders, and, extinguishing “ : - T A xclasfmasion: wiimonient| Sy ARD il Wang CE ool iE Solver the lamp, passed back quietly into a L} . =2 entgl glory. As he grested them he the study. where a number of import- ; ; placed in the hands of his old friend s were walting for examin- h 2 : x “WE MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE| The genial c ihe captain a parasol of the daintiest / | - ot O A sNCE» | Companying her out to the sedan- |silk and told him to open it and hold AR OF SCIENCE" ( chair—he would have been delighted |it over his bride, expiaining as he * % X X iy e o f ey ) to accompany her to the ends of the |did 8o that the ivory carving on the quLl. I've nthu"' sad news ‘f" 5 ) ; - cret of whose wondrous color he had | earth—and the thoughtless and, tact- | handle meant “The Cerulean Canopy vyou, my dear,” said Captain % ) now discovered, and crossing back to|less Mrs. Wilkins, who by general |of Our Goddes the colony, they climbed over the back | COnsent was the greatest matchmaker | “Why! How perfectly lovely,” she wall of the temple of the Queen of | in the colony had no more sense|cried as she noticed its deép rich Heaven and replaced them in the|than to say: “Why! Capt. McAlpin, I|~~'or. “I will christen it at once as McAlphin of the Australian Mail to Mrs. Whitmarsh, as she greeted him @t her bungalow on the Peak after declare! What a surprise to fin m! 2 : you y ? s br}:lfi:l:‘l: :r’t:m! lh; x‘w;vr-‘g&x:; L‘D"(f;es";"wcm;whg;’ez e‘\*}:(’;::d g;fi:‘; ::“er;; "H‘ohvlv! 13,:"; y’flur(u‘hll‘n a8 aying| “TILE OF HEAVENLY BLUE" % - a0 L = | < . - - re- e, isn' -And, fsn't Ce : 8 and oL i O acanaint. |ginning to poison them on the sly, |surcl B conn, Yem ThE cartingy e fCerngi L) e family In Melbourne to|SVARTE, 10 Doison them an The SI¥ | S : placed them there, in spite of the fact address the most charming young Widow | ;5¢ice that a dignified native gentle Wi coee @) Incgeact ofT that the very next day Ying Sing - in Hongkong in this way.) man standin, vays j climbed the ladd i er | > 5 g near by caught her re- ple income, for the llama dog always ed up the er hanging ov h“'."'h’““:::’g: what can possiblY i g i and turned his footsteps in her | pays handsome tribute to the queen |the side of the P. & O. liner in the e direction.) Mrs. Whitmarsh lost her | of heaven harbor, with the those very same “My “poor little ‘Chop Sticks' is Trixy a few daye ago and T've just I do mot really Velieve that any- |thes concealed in a leather valise: E o ear rom my husband that Capt. | k has taken place at; But strange things happen in China. Pl R“:I:‘;‘fia;’:m'e“’g::fie e gc.,y;:n toid themdat l::edcll’uh Tiffin | all” repiied the detective, “but at the | Having eluded the customs officer, By Ed dHa o s ttle pet dog ha een poi- | same time 1 am most-anxious, as you, | wh, vas leani wver the rail smok- Ppoisoned him. soned in the same mysterious way.| venerable father, so well know. 10 |ing’ u oigar with the pilot, he slid man Taucourt. .“"',..n"e"’in"?.?f':,‘mw’“ JobicTand | (The native gentleman seemed more | stop any such rumor at once and to | je R Wl geekc until he came } % . S s and more interested. and, casually do all I can to preserve that good | {0 5 BHeR8 U1 LECT WL O Nl Sy afed from the Fremeh by Wil-) she ha taking a little memorandum book out | feeling between the races that hes a o mhere ey Tam L. McPherno £ne has cousing who will be willing of his sleeve, jotted down a few rapid [ made Hong_Kong famous w. over | Eently knoc e ECome, sa¥] a . ol r‘mh h notes.) I wonder if Sir Eveington |the east. We both remember that[I@ther gruff voice. “Ah: It's you, is HEN the detafls of the In- | o't Fefure. shmc e Cathey , Wi go to ge _and, R O e s Sats Yoy |has heard of it and what he thinks | case several vears ago, do we not,|it? And have you brought the goods et s o BTLER i “know L 'called him ‘Chop Sticks® be- |°f It?" N when we almost came to & riot down | With you, as we say in the U. 8. A. / g em some duy. cause c?e was always such a lively |; “MY husband was speaking of it at|on the wharves, because’a party of | “My hab got, all ploper.” Michel found himself the e little crftts er. That's the meaning of | Dreakfast this very morning.” replied | vulgar tourists threw their cigar| “Well, trot them out, thén,” said richest farmer in his ‘part gl o in Chinese, Lively chilaren. | the wife of the governor, “and he said | stumps right at the head of this same |Archihald Wilkins (the senior mem-{o¢ the country. He had his own J{E 8round his teeth as he listened. and he ‘was just the liveliest little |that while he had known of suchsacred dog of the llamas? Well. we {ber of the firm of Wilkins Brothers, ) . = o N S He raged inwardly and writhed I , and that of Tienette, his Wife. | in iy bea, o was e s cpainen g ani- id—deg though he was and not hu- |things happening among the natives | don't want that repeated. the most famous art dealers of Bos: e S e Passenger|in India and Burmah, he couldn't| “What do you advise? o) and it “they're the genuine | He had the share of his twin brother | ymo) Sivihe o e aboard my ship. Well, let me see, it |Feally conceive of their happening in| “My plan. which has been most care- | inine youre the richest' man thatiSidore and the portion of his two |y s oAk (the chaln it was last, Monday night that—" 2 vilized community like Hong-fully thought out. and which I now |y ard a cue on any sam-pan in this|nephews who had been killed in the | 8 paws. It would have killed him: “Why, that's the very day that you |kong—but here he comes himself; let | humbly submit for your approval, is 7 | 1f he had stayed there. So he got up brought him up here in the after-|Us ack him. { that we should both make a careful | P47 = vail a jwar. And added to these were' the | i anger giving him noon,” interrupted his hostess. i e were just speaking, dear, of the | investigation of this thing, but that; Ying Sing opened the valige and Un- ;. ..y which he had bought during | P stciug il ae “Sure .enough, the very day. * Well, | Poisoning of those little pet dogs, and { we should do it separatel wrapped the cotton rags that con- 1 lifeti H 1d to his wit > | began to walk about again. L i i e S _: to act | Mrs. De Peyster seems to think that:you to pay & visit 10 the . aled the treasures. Mr. Wilkins took | his long lifetime. He sald to his wife: | «No¢ thig time,” he sald, et 4 “""‘-"mln e Gt ‘xir: a meneral plot of the natl to { dropping in without notice s ithe tites and. IlD]("l"IIK "';,';"hufi tole “What will you do With all this| The physician warned him that an rive em all out of the colon: informaliy—ask the old “pries owerful electric bulb (w e had | property when I am dead? other attack would carry him off; | Grced, o 173012y take his chow and all that; just 13y |~ “Nonsense! Nonsense!" interrupted i ally 2 e dim lamp of the: in his Jittle basket a-kind o' SasPINg |the Eovernor, “iU's just one of those | bon mote Sorefulls his coplics. | e O nem ong and care.| He kept on repeating this question.| inat he must be car . and note carefully cabin). examined them long a : i eful, musn't go like and breathing hard, and wher I|foolish scares that mervous citizens! him closely to see if he is attempting | fully with a powerful pocket lens.!But he wasn't in earnest. -He asked | oyt when it was too w. tried to. get him to sit up he just ups |get into when two or three cases of | c i hing, although I do armgor too in a convulsion and that was the end |anything whatever happen in the col- | not think he will do so. and if there of mimr ony. It is true that several of us!js anything in this story of the for- “gast like my poor little Trixy a |have lost valuable dogs within the | eign insult, either he or one of his m ago. How strange last few days—and all of them appa- | servants will be sure to leak it out.” “I got Doc Patterson to just run in|Tently from poisoning—but this may | <“And if it should happen to be true, be just an accidental coincidence, or | what then?" and take a look at him, and he says, | ", 1 Wwha en? possible that some servant or em- | " “Why, then you will naturall “Cap, its poison and not mistake. ploye may have a grudge against everyykrgumem i your power to “Why, who do you suppose could|their owners and have gratified it in | nave it quieted down and ignored. A have dope it? He wasn't cross to the |this unfortunate way. I don't think | 4 loyal sitizen of the colony you will natives, was he’ we shall really hear anything more x = . Why n ey rere Samt oLt plead for its peace and security; as a ‘Cross? Y, never, Y disciple of the sages you will quote as fond of him as I was. My room-; These reassuring remarks on the | the sublime words of harmony and boy actually cried like a child when|part of his excellency, however, did | good will, and lastly, you can phrase e saw he was dead. No, no, it wasn't | DOt prevent the excitable and talka- | {he financial issue, if you wish, by anybody on board the ship, I'm sure|tive Mrs. De Peyster—who was al-|ghowing him how your mutual income of that. Doc thinks he just must|Ways only too ready to believe any-| would fall off should the government thing bad on the part of the na- v e picked up something in the street tives—from adding that she felt con- :‘:r‘{l:e‘? suspend all worship at the e —— When thoroughly convinced that they )it only to conceal his malicé, for he | c and musn’t climb stairs. were genuine “Tangs,” he turned and|had no idea of dying first. He had| “All right. I see what I have asked, “Where did you get them?|,over doubted that he would bury his | ' 50" You are quite sure that they are your | S8 (0T C R AL :.m_ Al-le had his idea, the old rascal! own family’s heirloome and that they [Wife, some day or other. 1f you want-|As soon as he could get out of thelother and he asked me why didn't| pure and I don't see why the Sunday have not been stolen from some one | druv: wcmmuunted' his wagon and{I try and write ads too which he|alliance or somebody don’t get busy 1se?” Ying Sing was indignant, to o e notary's. says they was good money in it. and not only make these guys tell else our wite looks extraordinarily he said, T can’t work say the least, and, putting on & 100k | o i*% . F5 Rever sick. She will live S ork any ik the truth about their goods but make of injured innocence that would have |t pe a hundred.” strength, - Tieneite le' end t“ my e 1an't A them tell the whole truth. @one justice to a Raphael cherub, an-| Then he looked her over thoroughly |of hers. We are tnrongh with cuire | S¢, L told him I couldmt hev For inst. it they are advertiseing swered, “My no blongee tiefee, my|to discover some signs of weakness, |vating the fields. It breais - oy |® 8d writer because I haven't got no | say the Perfect Cord Tire, why let talkee tlue, my blandfader he hab ail|some promise of serious fllness. He |neart, but I must sell. Seil every, | imagination, so he says that is the | thelr ad read: o same glandfader pay he—many hun-|hoped that she would come down With !thing. With the money you can buy |last thing a man needs to write ads | , The, Perfect Cord sells for 379 Same B e Foi he home-side.|cold and rheumatism. You ask me,ime fentes and. we i) S L Sod HLn pretty Soar Sk EOME P N VD el s vou blieve, all light my odn|perhaps, for whom he wes amassing lon the income. Do it at opoer = | = |because when you write them nowtire. It is @ non-skid tire when the PO Y er man” The American|all this property—he who was aiready | The notary asked nothing better. |days for a first class consern they | car is standing still on a dry road se iclon. and|BIXty years old and had neither sons |He posted noti g better. ¢ g but the | 4nd it don’t hardly ever get a punc- apologized for his suspicion, and | RELY Yoats Ol AR% Nad Meltber sons | He posted motices of sale 'There is | won't let you tell mothing bu e e he was a-running along.” inced th atter the usual hagglng e o a|nieces * For whom? For himself.|since the war The land’ wea' her) | truth about thelr goods and further | something. The Perfect Tire {s guar- “But how about my Trixy? He never | Yiniced that there was some religious | "y (se yen tsunk, yiu loong tze yiu|#lid over the side of 132 303, TICL,% | For the pleasure of owning the land, land the notary bought government {and more if you dom't tell the truth. | anteed for 8000 miles which means went out uniess I carried him in|less they took prompt measures to|SCNE( ¢xclaimed the abbot (W ise in his girdle. while the |q% riEncding i o & over It bonds. When Pere Michel saw the | the high class magazines won't print | WAt 12 one o Vhe! 3 —| ts grip on you. But | you haven't only drove it 1000 miles, my chair, and he went just that way. | suppress it some ridicolous -jouy | 27 the Words of the philosopher, and den away 1y blue re-|tnio ol gets bundies of certificates arrive he put|the ads. "y, less tiles of heavenly blue this old man’s love of the land was P! why take it to one of our agents and And the Chinese just loved him. 100, | pidgin” would end in the slaughter | 2e¢Per than the dragon's pool™). “And price! e T SianianeE s 0 them on the table and explained to| So I s - 1, on my part, will carefully go into | posed under lock and key 00 paasionate. The older he grew |Tienette: y Cvou read in the maga- | try to get a new one. :;;:n:‘;eh"n:::e' o“f"l‘heu:)nlg ;::,ldf::: ::dalcl“talfig l_}egini :;xe“nmnloflt:_g{::; all the details of the case, visiting | compartment of stateroom u‘.’ e ;l;:!r:'o”:‘&ercely Jealous he was of his | “You see, you have only to take :(l::e;heizlnill:lin‘ S50 factsand he| Or If they was advertiseing a car they were actually so clannish_that [ received some additional weight from | (he ¥atious forelen homes and Inter | It wan of COUTq, T e aRny i ST, the Belssors. | You cut off this litis | savs you bet they are and Lwill give |ISElli o o pong six com -boy |a 1 g eople, b —like that. en the job |y ollar e s - - -om:;lr'u; a C;nl:me-e dhn:u(e:obo[; :' ‘(’r’fe :;'D::&;n},tr!;:'{nut day's issue ready to confer together again inper had escaped the ulla"eye ofdlze i YOU could see that when he had his I8 over. It's easier than BPldl;zjonfi:e‘:lt‘you O i, 0" asked | plete is $1685 F. O. B. Albany, mean- Al A s bl i : {about a week's time. Are we per-|spector Gubbins of the police, an P field, isn’t it et bt he considered was the high | ing that if you live way off some- was naturally as anxious as any one rst stroke. Trienette looked aft- He grinned. But three months ' class magazines and he named a few | wheres like Utica the chassis won't «OUR MOTHERS OR GRANDMOTHERS ON RETIRING USED TO TAKE TO THEIR ROOMS A SAUCER OF FRESH CREAM.” you believe it?” “MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF VALUABLE D0GS. | fectly agreed Jusciac (i moment ithe aforesaid | ““Their words and thoughts did|to prevent an international row Inler him and 100k the greatest trouble 'later he had t i I'bought them and when |only cost you $1750 and then all as house-hoy appeared with the chit-| “The sudden death, apparently from | ylend as the twin sources of the |the colony. He had called at once om | o noy pin o omenre u pe S o8 1 lew that his Sl Do orfmen A Iire oiso to do.I1]yom malf 1o buy ‘i s body and a Whit. | Poison. of a number of pet dogs in o My f , 3 had traced the rumor . But he, al come. e |1 didn’ t Do A e Lo M minute, | the colony has led to an unfortunate | {hc analcets? 18 1t not o WrILen I | e ning the insult at the shrine %0 |ways peevish and snarlin, kept dou. [Te23 It In the doctor’s face. ‘When |looked through them at the ‘ads. | steering wheel and & couple spare marsh. “Excuse me fjust a minute, i 2 e analects W co 3 - |they spoke in whispers in th m ends, if 1 had of tooken this | tires. e 7 passenger model has captain. while 1 glance at this” The| pumor that this is an *‘;u‘;’er’;t“’;’igflzl “Venerable father. it is! a mative reporter. This indfvidual bling her burdens. “Do this! Don't |he pretended to b ateen e oeger | B o hia offer he could of paid | room for 3 grown ups and @ weasel. wisitor bowed and turned to the boy v ®] And 8o the interview ended. and old |after being carefully au do tha He never left her a mo-|to find out how matters stood. He sir tax with the change from a; The Echo don’t use hardly and gas and vindictive natives, for some ac- | - he had no actual evidence his o Yung Lung my watchee talkee you.| cidental affront to a sacred animal] CNANE SWung back the outer gate to |mitted tha‘l’ ‘En‘:‘ Sathered the story |[ment's peace. When she had almost |58¥ Tienette weeping. He saw the | ruble. as she is laid up most of the time. how fashion you thinkee your mis-|in a local shrine. We do not concur | 1€t the coolies carry the temple sedan ;n 0ion, bl iSns"of a personal broken her back nursing him ‘In the |Driest coming with his ofls. They| One of the first ads 1 run: acrost | The Echo don’t need no patent safe- sussee little doggle go makee die, er?" | in this belief ourselves and we look i 10 the roadway. o i Who was nome other than the [daytime he did everything he-could |8aVe him extreme unctlon. was a ad of a cold cream and the ty locking device. Her looks is her “My no savee,” was the always-|to our respected Chinese fellow citi- L afore-mentioned Yung Lung, the blue- |t0 prevent her sleeping at' night. T am lost,” he said to himself. | people that makes it is A No. 1 and } protection. ready and immediate answer. zens to join with us in immediately | 1 was well past the usual hour of | sowned houss boy at Mrs, Whit-|When he saw her close her eyes he |, 1e had the air of taking the mat- {0, K., but here is how the ad stai.-} TRat is the way to make them ad- “I know you don't ‘savee’ but how | correcting this report before it grows || Earsh's bungalow. ¢ aroused her to ask her some trivial |!€r in good part. of not worrying |ed out. vertise, gents, and when you get a fashion Chineeman he talkee? Cook,|!0 a possibly dangerous proportion. bedtime in Hong Kong when a |MIGel® (0, hosaible reason could |auestion. whether he should go to heaven or| “Most of us can remember when|system like that working, they won't oolle” outside man, how fashion|. In the Quiet Glade of Reflection | somewhat dilapidated sampan sculled |sne faithful Yung Lung have had for | ‘Pull up the covers, I'm cold. Take |t0 hell, like a man who had other|our mothers or grandmothers on re-|be no more pitiful cases like the thinkee? Eh>” : Wang Foo leaned over his table and | out into the harbor and headed for |starting a tale of this kind?* was the |of the spread, I'm too warm. Rear- |things in his mind, something much tiring used to take with them to|poor sap 1 spoke of, that went and "The boy hesitated for a moment and | CaTefully perused the English news- | ¢ i iital g Seygs Question which the inspector put to|range my pillows, my back is sore. Do |More important to attend to. After | their rooms a saucer of fresh cream.” |learned how to, play a quaint dreamy h Teplied, taking good care to|PaPer and its Chinese translation in e opp - Two dark figure | Q0 9000 when they met by appoint |You want me to be carried off the the priest went away he said: Well, personly, I didn’t remember | Hawaiian music on a ukelele and ae Rinisaif frame Evory particse otl"” evening edition. He also looked | crept out from under the mat-shed | meniCat headauarters to talk the case | more quickly that you leave the door | “My Poor wife, there is nothingino such a thing but 1 wanted 10| there's only one place he is ever e eion. ~Cook. talkee’ him otpw. | gver the notes which he had Jotted {and stepped off onto the beach. |over together. “Rometi R L DI I e D D S O e e el T = loper. suppose him dlinkee|doWn in Government Gardens. He|gilently they wended their way among | “What reason except his personal| COMOtimes he shouted: o s iconill sawf e mow, i1 L | Ule @b renitm aiadiisaye (o N1ien A RING W. LARDNER. Chaw:, no DIODer. S D nkee | touched the silver bell and the|the crowded huts until they came to |loyalty to his mistress—and his de- ou are dying to see me go out a mind to. 1 rely on Him. But|at a tim Long’s Island, Jan. 2. Melican man medicine-water havee | venerable grand one mounted the |, crooked alley that led them at |votion to her dear little Trixy " feet first, 50 that you will have every- |it i8 necessary that some one with a an you remember when your| sick go makee die—my no savee.ilittle stairs. “Lao Tai Tai, chow |jength to a small brick house almost| “How many European dogs have | thing." §00d heart should ask Him to save|mother or grandmother on retiring R T Chair-coolie talkee bllonge joss pid-lkan mung tik tag Tien Ju Wang . pidden by the overhanging cliff. Overlactually been killed, Mr. Wang? When she took down a piece of |me. Go to the church and make a|used to take with them to_ their Avoiding Trouble gin—my no savee.” Miao chuk. ching Lao Fu Tze King | (he door was an old Chinese sign.| “Eight in all, sir,” was the answer. | kitchenware to scour it or looked in Prayer for your husband and he wllfll room a saucer of fresh cream?” . “Aha!” remarked the captain, re-jbang chik lee lai! (Venerable | m'ton"Thee worse for wear, which an-| *“Well, now that we think of it. that | the closet for linen, he sai: recover. Put a log on the fire an Six out of the 10 replied with the CONGRESSMAN at a dinner held lapsing for a moment into his cor-|Grand One, call the gatekeeper and | younced that “Tung tik sui chi fak |is not such a very large number—" | “Don’t take that down. Don't touch |come back soon short and ugly wo i T s G ey L o reet mother tongue: “Then there's a | t€ll him to go to the temple of the |} &i“Kak,™ or. in our Anglo-Saxon| “Np. to be sure, it is not: but the 3 She was reluctant to leave him. . lof them give me a dirty look and the P his hal prol religious element in it, is there? Some |Quéen of Heaven and ask the ven-| ,ngue, that “Articles of brass and | trouble is that they all happen to be You would rather have me die | other sava: argument broke out at the end of the Tniserable old superstition, I'll be|crable father to come here this even-jron’ are here made for our honorable | valuable animals and their owners| She made no reply. "lwouldn't you? Wicked, wicked | “] have heard that one! £ab14: The combatants, miencsd, Appk> bound. 1 was afraid of that, you| %) ustomers.” After several knockings |are prominent residents.” And the old man remained obleaudl"’m" 1 come to a ad of a winter top for| , .. yin interrogatively. He said: ow. . Well—how - fashion that J “Hien Sang sho ting hao, Chu Jin ', "the entrance it was finatly opened | “I wonder if we could get an ac-|\ith his ldca: He urged her so strongly that aticars that for all as I know it may|®d 3 il know. Well—how "fashion that joss|tze hwa ee jing tso liao™™ was the | &% the entrance it was fin curate list of them anywhere? 1 may ‘Sie ot this stroke and she |1ast she obeyed. When she was out | be'a good winter top, but the ad says:| “A prohibition argument always re- pidgin immediate response. (The elder born h “I have made very careful inquiries' will have all my property.” of the house he got up, opened his| “Bad weather is the time you need | minds me of the Smythes. The boy looked carefully over to-|speaketh well: the master's werds! The apartment into which they en- i He though closet, took out the bonds and burned i 5 ¥ 2 1 and I have them right here in my| He thought only of that. You could 3 your car mos “+John, said Mrs. Smythe, 4f we word his mistress to sec it she was| have already been obeyed!) In less e s i an Ghasy and bore a1l | otebook™ (drawing It out from his | read it in his little narrow eyes, He hem 'all in_the fireplace Then he | 8o T asked 4 guys when they meed | were” hoth“young nd L R s #ot oL hansidiy €84 thas sald in a low | than an Tiaur the sbboC's sedmn-chiste {,© 0 rs “Fhase avas the Dench with |Sieve).. ~There fa; first, Mrs. Whit- | could have accommodated himself {o |Stumbled bac o) < ed their car most and 3 of them|youia you ask me to be your wife, tone to his questioner: “Coolie talkee m':um 'fle! Sad articghe ta e rl he toolsand beyond it an anvil and'a marsh's Trixy and her friend Capt. the thought of no longer owning the ————————— says in summer when its the golf|ine same as you did in the moonlight Hongkong joss no likee Australee dog allsy land actcr ehatcazenionfal (f1e (ool an Sbevendlt a4 & [ McAlpin's Chop-sticks, and Fuji and | land. since even the most avaricious king Ahead season and the other one says when- | on’the ocean pler that summer night” come dis side. Plentee picce go makee | L¢2 and pipes, the two friends re-:furnace me clay retorts, and|yama, the Japanese dogs of the Wil- { person knows that he can’t carry the 00King ead. ever it's laid up in the garage. And|°%‘Now, my love’ said Smythe, die—joss all same chokee he!” paired for qulet conference to the:lying around on the rough board |kins' girls, that is four; then the two | flelds with him into the next world. wile we are talking about automo- |gsquirming uneasily in his chair—now. room above. | shelves were unfinished pipes and|pointers belonging to Col. Yardley at ut te v f v T 743 e some one there beside him LECTURER said In a talk on fem- | bile accessorys, they was another ad | my love, just when we've settied down ‘Why, what a singular coincidence.” | "'y, ng oo began: “We are in some |, howls and pincers and tongs such as|the barracks, that is six, and lastly— | who was going to replace him when A 4 y T Liteaab > inism: “Nothing angers & woman | that said: for a pleasant evening what's the exclaimed Mrs, and signed the | GARSer. venerable father, of moreiire used in, the humbles Celestial|{and most important of all—the two|he was gone, some one Who Woull{yorethanan unjustaccusation. Would |, " : 2 h very owner wants his gold ini-!good of your trying to start some- Jaid down the letter and signed the|racial clashing in the colony, which |por o Scotch collies which arrived for Lady | acquire all his rights—that was too tials on side door of his automobile | Ining? ™ - chit-book, “Mrs. Wilkins says that|we must take immediate steps to the sleeping tiger in the e v 2 “You have brought the tiles?” in-|Beecham by the Glanmorgan, that|much for him. And the more that|YOu rouse the 12 I made inquirys about this from 3 R e e e bt o sy | DoALINE o dave eard) ot el quirea “Silver e (o Ying Sing~) | makes the elght, does it not " thought possessed him the angrier he | sconomical housewite's breast? Then |birds that owns cers and couldn't T O e ey ive ‘readtully 11 and | bont. an® hanorable” plance. o ‘this®: |of his visitors, “and they are three in [ ~EXactly so; and it was poison in | grew. Certainly he had never loved | acouse her of extravagance. get ' ‘civll answeriout of none,ot A Materialistic: Age. her children are just broken-hearted | handing him a copy of the Chinese |all So every ome thought at first, for [ nevér detested any one as much.ag he,| ‘AN economical housewife told her| Then they was a ad that said: GEORGE BELLOWS, the New York e other morning that she'd “No gift from a father to a som ~ for fear they are going to die. 1|Paper. The abbot adjusted his large | “Behold them!" they cried. as they|people naturally jump at conclu- | detested Tiemette when he realized | husband wonder if our good friend Dr. Pat-|round d?m:: Bogples G cnrelunyiunwrflnped a couple of rough-looking isions, but Veterinary Tompkins says ! that he might die and that she would | have to ask him for a dollar more a tersop.would mind just dropping in | PriM8ec, Toe, ATtICle. dHl‘-anMIam packages from beneath their coats. |now that the pointers really died of | be his sole inheritor. B high ' AR ri he . and taking a look at them on his| (N0 WO, e repeated to x"lf"'f ‘And they are the benuine heavenly |distemper. and the two little collies | People amused themselves ‘at his Week on account of the high cost of liv- ? Two modern girls,” he said, “were Setniln " e i hocal Shrine. Local | blue from the crown of the goddess?" |just couldn't stand the heat. That|expense, as was gatural. Mare tren : v o a halt-doflar| 1 31Nt Balf to make no inquirys|smoking cigaretles with their after- Cogtalnly, Tl stop there myself on | o inG sacred dou ot \an Teiera Y | iThere are no other like them reduces the list, you see, to exactly jone in the village had a grudg: i Tl {)rlyd-n‘ ‘"r’.’un = l.uond: about that as I have got 4 sons of my lunche:n coffee in a downtown restau- my way down the hill and send him | (he Macao wharf concerning mnioh |, True!' True cried Ying Sing, “I{four against him, for he had alwaya been | he grumbled. “Thats tbe beet [ oa owd and ite just a question in my |kt the other day. Up; perbaps he'll catch them in time.” | the coolics are always so jealous, 1|knoW them at once; they are price And,"thnra is no doubt about thejan oppressor of the poor. They took u’re pretty extravaga e melia, A nyhow.’ said the first girl, and she . answefed the skipper. as he bade his | wonder now if some thoughtless for- |less. The peach-blow glaze of the |PolSen? pleasure in baiting him. M ‘Me -xmm.v{’n" F nd iAmll'- mind whether it would be more sens- | heavéd a deep sigh—‘anyhow. darling, . hostéss good-bye and Ktarted off in | cigner has stirred up their anger by |MInES I8 as nothing to this deep blue | NOLE Whatever—the symptoms in| “You don't meed te worry, lere !lsushed D ol fwonwaranst [Abis tes mixaftiam e franofor flockcl (URP RS R TR RSN e che jrection of the doctor's ofice— | insulting the idol; 'if so, we must |of the Tangs. 1 must copy It for my T oniiued Cthe inspector, | el I you BRdud e | o has saved her wedding dress | them U in & room with a mad dog. |MUSPL0 NN LTAA AL L 0 o save the 2 ! \ 3 o . o < ., seco A T inardly Ceussing | hake et £00d af once and quiet their 'brass enamel. It Wil take three days afier a moment's thought, “then there ' has gosq judsment and courage and|for over thirty years on the chance that| ADd speaking about razors they|moder girl. provided you keep the ¥ them back are just three questions .mr us to health. If she car't”do ev¥fything, she may yet make a second marriage.’ " !was a shaving cream that they claim- presents.’” > could be more sensible than a razor.” ST FWAS MALNIRERhOUL e JOAN- terialism of some of the modern gir % L - 4